Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Headstone
Mocollop, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mocollop
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.14940, -8.09420
- SMR number
- WA019-002003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a rise in the floodplain of the W-E Blackwater River. The headstone (max. H 1.25m; Wth 0.8-0.85m) of Richard Norris, with an incised roman inscription dated 1629, is at the centre of the rectangular graveyard (WA019-002002-) of Mocollop church. (Power 1898a, 216)
Power, Rev. P. (1898a) Ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford, WAJ 4, 83-95, 195-219.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 February 2011
References
Power, Rev. P. 1898a Ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford. Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Journal 4, 83-95, 195-219.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.